# craftsman
## English
### Alternative forms

* craftman

### Etymology

From craft +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kräfts′-mən IPA: /ˈkɹɑːftsmən/
* (General American) enPR: krăfts′-mən IPA: /ˈkɹæftsmən/
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* (General Australian) enPR: kräfts′-mən IPA: /ˈkɹɐːftsmən/
* Hyphenation: crafts‧man

### Noun

craftsman (plural craftsmen)
* One who is highly skilled at one's trade; an artisan or artificer.
** 1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388:Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.
** 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 232d:And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
** 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
* A person who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.
** 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, “Central Taiwan”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides)‎, Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:Yeh Wang (1826-1889), a master craftsman born in Chiayi, founded the Taiwanese branch of the industry, and though his work is rare these days, you can still see some of his original figures in Ciji Temple in Syuejia near Tainan (see p.333).[...]Chiayi is still home to numerous koji craftsmen - in addition to its vibrant colours, koji is unique in that everything is handmade.
* A person who produces arts and crafts.

#### Hypernyms

* artisan
* (rare) craftsperson

#### Coordinate terms

* craftswoman

#### Derived terms

* craftsmanlike
* craftsmanly
* craftsmanship
* mastercraftsman
* master-craftsman
* master craftsman
* witchcraftsman

#### Related terms

* handicraftsman

#### Translations

Albanian: mjeshtër (sq) m
Arabic: صَانِع m (ṣāniʕ), حِرَفِيّ m (ḥirafiyy), حِرْفِيّ m (ḥirfiyy)
Armenian: արհեստավոր (hy) (arhestavor)
Bats: ოსტატ (osṭaṭ)
Belarusian: раме́снік m (ramjésnik), раме́сьнік m (ramjésʹnik) (Taraškievica)
Bulgarian: занаятчи́я (bg) m (zanajatčíja)
Catalan: artesà (ca) m
Chinese:
Hokkien: 廚工 / 厨工 (tû-kang)
Mandarin: 工匠 (zh) (gōngjiàng) (gender neutral), 男工匠 (nángōngjiàng) (male), 匠 (zh) (jiàng)
Czech: řemeslník (cs) m
Danish: håndværker (da) c
Dutch: vakman (nl) m
Egyptian: (ḥmww m)
Estonian: käsitööline
Finnish: käsityöläinen (fi)
French: artisan (fr) m
Georgian: ოსტატი (osṭaṭi)
German: Handwerker (de) m
Greek: τεχνίτης (el) m (technítis)
Ancient: τεχνίτης m (tekhnítēs)
Hindi: कारीगर (hi) m (kārīgar)
Hungarian: kisiparos (hu), mesterember (hu), műves (hu)
Icelandic: handverksmaður (is) m
Indonesian: tukang (id)
Ingrian: ammattimees
Irish: fear ceirde m
Italian: artefice (it) m
Japanese: 工匠 (ja) (こうしょう, kōshō), 職人 (ja) (しょくにん, shokunin)
Javanese: tukang
Khmer: សិប្បករ (səppaʼkɑɑ)
Korean: 장인(匠人) (ko) (jang'in), 공장(工匠) (ko) (gongjang)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: وەستا (westa)
Northern Kurdish: hoste (ku)
Latin: artifex (la) m, opifex m
Latvian: amatnieks m
Lithuanian: amatininkas m
Macedonian: занаетчија m (zanaetčija)
Malay: tukang (ms), pandai (ms)
Manchu: ᡶᠠᡴᠰᡳ (faksi)
Manx: keirdagh m
Maori: ringarehe
Mingrelian: ორსანტი (orsanṭi)
Nanai: пакси (paksi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: håndverker (no) m
Old Church Slavonic: къзньникъ m (kŭznĭnikŭ)
Old English: cræftiga m
Ottoman Turkish: صنعتكار (sanʼatkâr)
Polish: rzemieślnik (pl) m
Portuguese: artesão (pt) m
Romanian: meșteșugar (ro) m, artizan (ro) m
Russian: реме́сленник (ru) m (reméslennik)
Sanskrit: ऋभु (sa) m (ṛbhu)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зана̀тлија m, о̀бртнӣк m
Roman: zanàtlija (sh) m, òbrtnīk (sh) m
Sicilian: articianu m
Slovak: remeselnik m
Slovene: obrtnik m, rokodelec m
Spanish: artesano (es) m
Svan: უ̂ოსტა̈ტ (ûosṭäṭ)
Swedish: hantverkare (sv) c
Tetum: badain
Thai: ช่างฝีมือ (th) (châang-fǐi-mʉʉ)
Ukrainian: ремісни́к m (remisnýk)
Venetan: artexan (vec) m
Vietnamese: nghệ nhân (vi)
Welsh: crefftwr m
Yiddish: בעל־מלאָכה m (balmelokhe) :